Setting PHP enviromental variable while running command line script

Question

I need to run a PHP script from command line and I need to set some environmental variables. Unfortunately, following does not work:

php -dAPPLICATION_ENV=st         


        

Answer 1

You can set a variable in /etc/environment like FOO="bar" which is then accessible with getenv() in both CLI and web requests. You may need to relog for this change to take effect.